Friday, October 24, 1947

THE JEWISH NEWS

Sales Record Set at House of Books;
Toyte Pomerantsen' Makes History

Mr. and Mrs. Jay Golub (Met-
tie Baron), managers of the
House of Books, 8210 Second
Blvd:,. have set a new record bar
introducing important Jewish
books in this community and for
encouraging the distribution of
the Jewish clasSics.
A Schocken Books representa
tive, who visited in Detroit last
week; revealed that House of
Books is among the most success-
ful distributors of such Volumes
as Immanuel -01svanger's "Royte
Pomerantsen." The sale by the
Golubs of scores of copies of this
unusual book, which tells Stories
in Yiddish but is printed in Latin'
characters, . has made it one of
the most popular books.
Mrs. Golub announces that
House of Books carries a com-
plete series of Schocken publi-
cations, including the latest series
of "The Shocken Library," the
first five books of which are:
Nahum N. Glazer's "The Lan-
guage of Faith, Selected Jewish
Prayers"; Yitzhak F. Baer's "Ga-
lut"; S. D. Gaitein's "Froni the
Land of Sheba, Tales of the Jews
of Yemen"; Ashton's translation
of Heinrich Heine's "The Rabbi
of Bacherach" and "Solomon Mai-
mon: An Autobiography."
House of Books prides itself on
its selection of first editions and
rare books.
Golub announces that House

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of. Books also has secured thou-
sands of pieces of U. S.. Navy
silverware which are available in
a large selection.
. In connection with the distri.
bution of "Royte Pomerantzen,"
House of Book this week releas-
ed an interesting story, written in
the fashion of the- book itself. An
inspired reader wrote the story.
It reads:

"Rbyte Pomerantsen," aroyssgegeben .
fun Schocken Books, iz a zamlung fun
eyropeish-idishm humor gedruckt oyf
idish in lataynishe buchshtabn.
• Dos_ birch iz redaktirt fun Immanuel.
Olsvanger, welcher iz annerkent ais a
groyse.r oytori.tet in zaya fel& Yarn
;long hot Olsvanger farbracht in Ey-
rope zamlendig folk humor.
Unzer "Press Release" iz do ge-
drukt punkt azoy vi "Royte Pother-
antsen" kedey it zollt kenen zen vi
es leyent zach.
Ir vet efsher fregen: farvosl epes
lataynish? idish passt zey nisht? oder
efsher holm zey nisht kepi idishe
drukmashiri?
D zach iz azoy : Ir veysst misstome
,az in Amerika zeynan do a sach yunge
layt vos farshteyn a bissal idish ober
kenen keyn vort nisht leysen. Oder
zey gedenkn a idishe maysse oder a
idishn wits fun zeyre kinder yoren.
Dos gefelt zey gerade. Far azelche
yunge tayt, tm far alle qndere vos
farshteyen epes' idish hobn - mir ar-
oygegeben "Royte Pomerantsen," ke-
dey zey zolin fargenign hobn fun
unzer idishn humor. Derseylt zaynen
zev azoy vi bay in. der alter heym.
Vi kon men fartaytshen, idishn hu-
mor? Vi fartaytisht meh, l'moshl,
"treyfener beyn" oder "es dtreyt
zach"? Der gantser taam Vert ferlorn.
Hobn mir es afite nisht undergenumen.
Meyle. azoy blaybt idish gedrukt
in lataynishe buchshtabn. Un durch
di dertseylurtgen un vitsn redt dos
folk aleyn."

Odessa Ladies Plan
Aid Luncheon Oct. 28

(The Jewish Community Centel',
8904 Woodward, is a Red Feather
Agency)

Wednesday Discussion Group
The Wednesday Evening Dis-
cussion Group will present Ed-
ward Swann, executive secretary
of NAACP of Detroit, and Oscar
COhen, of the Jewish Community
Council, at 8:45 p.m., Oct. 29, at
the Center, in a symposium on
the topic, "Is Discrimination
Against Negroes A Jewish Prob-
lem?"
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Saturday Nite Party Oct. 25
The Saturday Nite Dance Com-
mittee announces that the next
dance party will be held in But-
zel Hall of the Jewish Center at
9 p.m. Oct. 25. Other. Saturday
Nite Dances are scheduled for
Nov. 8, Dec. 20 and Dee. 27.
Young adults are invited.
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Social Club Elects Officers
At the election meeting of the
Detroit Adult Social Club, the fol-
lowing were elected to lead the
- group for the coming season:
Martha Barnett, president;
Peter. Steffin, vice president; Es-
ther Portnoff, treasurer; Debby
Jaye, secretary; Bernard Victor,
program and Nathan Rubin, - pub-
licity. The group meets every
Wednesday • for a social evening
at the Center. The Detroit -Adult
Social Club is composed of un
married young men and women.
Install Social Club. Officers
Harold Schneiderman, Wayne
University field worker, installed
the following newly-elected offi-
cers of the 'Select Social Club:
Joseph Berman, president; • Mrs.
Lillian Teitel, vice president;
Mrs. Celia Beerbohn, secretary,
and Mrs. Anna Robinson, treasur-
er. The Select Social Club. com-
posed of middle-aged unmarried
men and women, meets at 9. p. m.
Saturdays at the Jewish Center.
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Simons Direct Talent Clinic
The intermediate and young
adult departments of the Center
have been fortunate' in securing
the services of Seymour Simons,
song writer, to direct the Center
Talent Clinic. The Talent Clinic
will meet at the Center at 8 p. m.
Tuesday. The session will be open
to persons 17 year old and above
who are interested in song writ-
ing- and singing.
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Servetter to Supervise Lounge
Mort Goodman, director of in-
termediate activities at the Cen-
ter, announces the appointment
of Leonard Servetter, Wayne Uni-
versity student and former Camp.
Habonim counselor, as supervisor
of the pi- 6gram in the intermed-
iate- lounge. The program for the

MRS. FRANCES SHAYNE

The Ladies of Odessa Progres-
sive Aid Society have completed
plans for their annual Child Res-
cue Fund donor luncheon to be
held at the- Hotel Statler, Oct.
28, at 12:30 p.m.
Rabbi B. Benedict Glazer of
Temple Beth El will be guest
speaker; Shoshanna Brooke (Mrs.
Ralph Freedman), soloist; Sadie
Cooper (Mrs. Allan Braver), vio-
linist; Lillian Robbins, accompan-
ist. The Hungarian Village Gyp-
sies, under the direction of Sam
Weinfeld, will-provide music.
Mrs. Morris Many is toast-
mistress; Frances Shayne,. chair-
man; Dorothy Weinhart, co-chair-
man; Helen Ring, treasurer; Eva
Hayman, arrangement committee
chairman, and Sarah Kanter tick-
et.distributor and financial secre
tary. -

year will include dance parties,
contests and music appreciation.
The intermediate lounge com-
mittee • recently appointed in-
cludes Phyllis Sutherland, Paul-
ine Wellens, Jordon Snyder, Bar-
bara Axelrod, Merton Schlesing-
er and Mickey Siegel.
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New Members on Junior Staff
Frances Winokur, director of
junior activities at the Center, an-

Pontiac Rabbi Speaks
To Perfection Lodge
At Deacons' Dinner

RABBI MILTON ROSENBAUM

"Who Is Your Hero?" is the
subject of the talk Rabbi Milton
Rosenbaum of Temple Beth Jac-
ob, Pontiac, will deliver at the
annual D,eacons' -Night of yerfec-:
tion Lodge 486 F: Si - A. M.,- at 6
p. m., Oct. 29', at , the Masonic
Temple.
Rabbi Rosenbaum entered the
U. S: Army as a chaplain in 1943
and served for three years with
infantry divisions. He spent 26
months in the Pacific theater, par-
ticipating in the Saipan and Oki- j1.
nawa campaigns, and six months I
in the Japanese islands during
occupation after V-J Day.
After being ordained at He-
brew Union College in 1940, Rab-
bi Rosenbaum served as assistant
rabbi at Euclid Avenue Temple,
CleVeland, from 1940 until 1943,
when he entered' the service.
Singe his return to civilian life
he has been rabbi in Pontiac.
The dinner at which the rabbi
will speak is being given by Per-
fection 'Lodge to honor Senir
Deacon' Harold R. Nelson and
Junior Deacon Harry Lichter.
Perfection Lodge degree team
will exemplify the third degree.

nounces the following appoint-
ments to the junior activities pro-
gram: 'Adeline Subar, former
counselor at Camp Habonim, will
assist Miss. Winokur; Harriet
Berg will, supervise the arts and
crafts Program, and Paul Kirsch
will teach photography.
The junior program meets ev-
ery Sunday afternoon. A Sunday
afternoon program is being de-
velbped for parents who bring
their children to the junior pro-
grarn.
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Jewish. Cooking Class
A course is Jewish cooking will
be given at the Center. All those
inerested in attending classes,
please call MA, 8400.
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hkerpretive Dance Class
Fannie Aronson, Center dance
instructor, announces that begin-
ners in interpretive dancing are
welcome to attend classes at the
Center on Tuthday evenings. Ad-
vanced groups meet on Thurs-
day' evenings.
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Juniors liold Swimming Meet
Marvin Klavons, swimming in-
structor at the Center, announces
that the Center juniors will hold
a swimming meet at -12:30 m.
Sunday, Nov. 2. The contest is
open to all juniors (6 to 14 years
old>.

PARIS (JTA)
High French
officials told the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency that there is
little danger of the Arabs in
North Africa joining their co-
religionists in the Middle East
in any "holy war against the Jews.

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Page Twenty-one

Heard in the Lobbies

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By ARNOLD LEVIN

(Copyright, 1947, Independent Jewish Press Service, Inc.)

Lake Success Dispatch.
Should the Jewish state, of the near-future-we hope, draw up a

roster of its friends among nations. Canada will receive high priority.
It Akas Canada!s statement endorsing the UNS.COP majority recom-
mendations, following, the endorsements by the US and USSR, that.
helped line up additional votes for' Jewish statehood under the.parti-
tion plan. Nor do we underestimate the value -of the endorsement .
given the partition plan by South Africa, Zionism's staunch friend
for many decades under the leadership of .Field Marshal Smuts,. New
Zealand and Australia. With. the dominions supporting a Jewish
state, with the US, USSR and other: Slav .states endorsing, it; other
conscionable states felt they could uninhibitedly act in conformity
with their consciences. Jewry will also retnember the lucid thinking
and wise suggestions contributed by Justice Rand of Canada to the
deliberations of UNSCOP. Of course, Granados' (of Guatemala) mag-
nificence and brilliant support of the just. Jewish claims: rightfully
entitles . him to honorary citizenship in the Jewish' state to which
Czechoslovakia's Masaryk and Poland's Winiewicz are also. entitled.
Nor shall Jewry quickly forget the magnificent support given the
JeWish case by Uruguay and by numerous .other states.
One of the amusing highlights of the general debate, Was the
exchange between Guatemala's Granados and Lebanon's impassioned,
quick...tenipered. Camille Chamoun. Granados accused Chamoun of
mutilating the portions. of the Lausanne Treaty which the...Lebanese
had quoted in the course of •a. speech to the Ad Hoc. Committee. Re-
plied Chamoun: "I . quoted•theSe portions from the teEt. of Granados'
own speech." The Guatemalan - checked and discovered that the Eng-
lish translation of the speech he had delivered in SpaniSh, and in
which he quoted certain portions of the Treaty, had been erroneously
translated. Said -Granados, pointing. at Chamoun and his Arab con-
ferees: "I did not think 'any'one coming into an international parlia-
ment would try to behave like a smart aleck. Mr. Chamoun is an
attorney and parliamentarian and surely knows the Lausanne Treaty
and could have obtained a text of it from the UN library. Mr. Cham-
oun could have compared, the English text with the Spanish and
French—for isn't French. the only •language in which he addresses.
this Assembly? He did nothing of the kind. He wanted to be a wise.
guy. Don't smile, Mr. Delegate from Lebanon, don't Smile, gentlemen
from the other Arab states—what 'Mr. Chamoun has done is too
obvious. It requires no additional comment!"